In re Ka.C. CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION EIGHT

In re Ka.C. et al., Persons Coming B326943 Under the Juvenile Court Law. LOS ANGELES COUNTY Los Angeles County DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN Super. Ct. No. 22CCJP02479A-D AND FAMILY SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KARLA G., Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Lisa A. Brackelmanns, Juvenile Court Referee. Affirmed.

William D. Caldwell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and William D. Thetford, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Appellant Karla G. (mother) is mother to minor children Ka.C. (born 2011), A.C. (born 2012), Ke.C. (born 2013) and J.C. (born 2017). The children’s father (father) is not a party to this appeal. Mother challenges the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings in support of the four Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 300, subdivision (b) counts sustained against her. She further challenges the juvenile court’s dispositional orders removing the children from her care. We affirm. BACKGROUND The family was the subject of juvenile court proceedings that began in 2014 following an act of domestic violence perpetrated by father against mother. The juvenile court terminated jurisdiction in 2015, granting mother sole legal and physical custody of her children, Ka.C., A.C., and Ke.C., who are three of the four dependents in the current proceedings, as well as E.C., who is now an adult. Mother had completed parenting, domestic violence, and other counseling programs; father had not participated in any court-ordered programs. Mother and father had another child, J.C., in 2017. The current proceedings began in April 2022. By this time, mother and father’s relationship had ended, and mother was living with a new partner, Carlos A. An anonymous caller reported concerns about mother’s mental health, her relationship with Carlos, and mother’s willingness to care for her children. According to the caller, mother said she told her children she wanted to give them up, had called the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (Department), and